1. It wouldn’t be truthful to the cookies as fat-free when we know they contain butter.
2. I could feel Tom at me after I dropped the ball.
3. It was so dark that the sudden of the headlights made me squint.
4. The sold everything I needed.
market, (mọr´kit) n.A place where food or goods are sold:I went to the market to buy fresh fruit.
v. To advertise; to promote; to sell:
Let’s market our product so people will buy it.
eruption devour volcano pressure fleefl revive
glare, (glâr)n.a strong, usually unpleasant light:The glare of the sun hurt my eyes.
v. to stare in an unfriendly or angry way:The two fighters glared at each other.
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Setting
What the Characters Want
Plot Problem
Outcome
Theme
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When the Smoke Cleared
Dr. Blair came to investigate why the volcano had erupted. He had read the reports made by other scientists. However, Dr. Blair thought these people might have misunderstood what had happened.
People living nearby were still scared. They had seen the
eruption devour their houses and wipe out plants and animals. Some people worried that the area might never revive. They also worried that the volcano might erupt again.
Dr. Blair disagreed with those who thought the area would not recover. He had studied many places hit by eruptions and other natural disasters. Plants and animals usually returned. This place would be the same. Life would find a way to continue.
Dr. Blair studied the volcano carefully. His work showed that the volcano would not erupt anytime soon. However, Dr. Blair knew that it was possible to misinterpret numbers. More importantly, his years of experience had taught him that what happens i n nature cann ot always be predicted.
1. Underline words with the short ii sound.
2. Circle the words with the prefixfi mis- or the suffix –lyyy. Draw a box around any circled word that has more than three syllables.
3. Which sentence states the theme of the third paragraph?
4. What is the theme of the fourth paragraph?
5. means to eat or destroy.
devour continue revive
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The Pony Express
In 1850, California became part of the United States. As a result, more people began to send messages from the east coast to the west coast. The problem was that there were no planes, phones, or computers in 1850 to send mail over long distances. Instead, people had to use slower methods such as horses and wagons.
This way of delivering mail could take almost a month!
In 1860, the Pony Express was created to provide faster mail service. The Pony Express took mail from Missouri to California in about ten days. Older mail services took three weeks for the same trip. How was the Pony Express able to deliver mail so much more quickly? In older mail services, horses and riders got tired and had to rest, so the mail stopped moving. In the Pony Express, riders got a new horse every ten miles. Every 75 to 100 miles, a new rider took over. The mail never stopped moving when the Pony Express was created!
1. What problem was the Pony Express created to solve?
2. What problem caused older mail services to be slow? Draw a box around the problem.
3. What solution did the Pony Express have for the problem from question 2?
This states a problem.
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Surfing the Web
The printing process has changed a lot over the years.
For example, people in the past used ink and papyrus, clay tablets, other kinds of paper, or the printing press to write and record information. Today, new inventions such as computers and the Internet allow us to print and share information in new ways.
Internet pages spread news across the world. Th ese news Web sites are better than newspapers in some ways. For example, these Web sites let you read articles from all over the world just by turning on your computer. You don’t have to sear ch for a store that sells newspapers from other cities or countries! More importantly, news Web sites are a fast way of getting news. On a news Web site, you can read news about an event right after it happens.
1. Underline the following signal phrases:
for example such as more importantly
2. What are some methods people in the past used to record information?
Put a box around the phrase that tells methods they used.
3. According to the passage, in what ways are news Web sites better than newspapers?
y
y This is a
signal phrase.
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A Dangerous Mountain
“Today’s class is about Mount Vesuvius,” Mr. Hall said to his students. “It is a volcano in Italy. In A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed three Roman towns. It showed that nature can be a very powerful force.”
Mr. Hall continued. “There were many small earthquakes in the days before the volcano erupted, but people ignored these warnings. They did not leave the area when they should have.”
Mr. Hall frowned. “People keep building new towns there, but Mount Vesuvius keeps damaging them. People must learn from history.”
1. Underline the important information about nature in the fi rst paragraph.fi 2. Put a box around the sentence that gives information about the warnings
people got before Vesuvius erupted.
3. What is the theme of the selection?
The theme is the overall idea of a
paragraph or story.
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A. Draw a line under the word that best completes each sentence.
Write the word on the line.
1. Sam’s stories made us laugh.
humorous expectant mistreatment
2. My sister was to all of our attempts to change her mind.
important attendant resistant
3. The old showed how our street looked 100 years ago.
graph photograph reaction
4. Jim gave his time to tutor me.
softly harshly u nselfi shlyfi
5. The room is enough to fit all of the sixth-grade students.fi spacious unusual unworkable
6. Our class had many ideas about where to go on a class trip.
distraction different middle
7. We went to a lake that was by hills.
surrounded allowable proud
8. Don’t throw away the container. It is . mismatched readable reusable